Improved meat-cutter



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JOHN G. PERRY, OF KINGSTON, RHODE ISLAND.

Letters Patent No, 83,308, dated October 20, 1868.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making parl: of thesame.'

'o all whom 'it may conce/rn:

Beit known that I, J onu G. PERRY, of Kingston,

in the county of Washington, and State of Rhode ,p Island, have inventedcertain new and useful Improveopen.

vFigure 2 is a vertical cross-section, taken through in the direction ofthe-red line in iig. 1.

Figure 3vis a bottom view'of the plate that holds the knives, and endview of the same.

Figure 4 is the shape of the knife-blades.A

Figure 5 is another-shaped blade that may be used,

Figure 6 is a perspective view ofthe plate for holding the knives.

The construction is as follows: y

A case, B, made in the shape of two hollow cylinders, placed side ybyside, having in each division a spiral-Hanged cylinder O G', turning inbearings Vin the ends of the case.

These spiral-lian ged cylinders are scored with grooves a a a, which areeither out or cast in the flanges.

In a recess, in the bottom of'the case, -a curved cr hollow plate, D, isfitted, in which grooves arelcast or cut, to hold the knives o o o,which project up into the groovesin the cylinders.

A rod, t, is putin through the end of thercase, and

passing in through the knives, helps to hold them in place. J J aregear-wheels, which connect the two 'cylinders together, and which aremade spiralling, to prevent the meat om staymg in them, and cloggingtheir mo tion., f

' S is a hopper, to receive the meat, and a nozzle, z,

is put into the discharging-aperture O, to hold the skins or cases, whenthe machine is used as a sausageller.

Itwill be seen, by reference to the drawing, iig. 3, that, by making theplate D hollow and thin, as shown, the grooves may be east or cutthrough, and at the same time give a support to the knives, across theirbreadth, thus having all the advantages of thick,/ solid blocks to holdthe knives all in one piece, with every Y facility for removing theknives in case of breakage, or

for sharpening.v

The operation is as follows: Motion being given to the cylinder, byturning the crank G, and the pieces of meat put into the hopper S, theiianges of the cylindersl will carry them down across the knives, bywhich they will be cut up fine,

` and the spiral shape of the flanges will gradually work the mass ofvmeat` towards the other end of the case,

where it will be discharged at the aperture O, through the tube z, intothe cases, or into a dish, as may be preferred, without the tube ornozzle.

Having thus described my improved meat-cutter,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

Thecurved or hollow plate D, withA openings, made substantially asdescribed, for the purpose of holding the knives of ameat-cutter.

` JOHN G. PERRY.

Witnesses z BENJAMIN ARNOLD, HORACE N. Fosrnn.

